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When a publication is called Jim Murray's Whisky Bible, you can assume a) some seriously dogmatic stuff lies within, and b) Jim Murray probably knows a lot about whisky. And you'd be right on both counts. But it should come as a surprise to the whisky status quo to learn that, this year, Mr. Murray -- one of the world's foremost experts on the stuff -- has awarded the title of world's best whisky to... something other than a Scotch?!

Yup. The esteemed Mr. Murray and his team of whisky brains exhaustively tasted over 4,500 whiskies to determine that Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask 2013 is the best on Earth. This marks the first time a Japanese whisky has taken top honors, and the first time in the review's 12-year history that not a single whisky ranked in the top five was produced in Scotland. Sorry, William Wallace.